The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
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"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities." When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," h...
Chapters (22)
- Preface.
- Lecture I. Religion And Neurology.
- Lecture II. Circumscription of the Topic.
- Lecture III. The Reality Of The Unseen.
- Lectures IV and V. The Religion Of Healthy-Mindedness.
- Appendix
- Lectures VI And VII. The Sick Soul.
- Lecture VIII. The Divided Self, And The Process Of Its Unification.
- Lecture IX. Conversion.
- Lecture X. Conversion—Concluded.
- Lectures XI, XII, And XIII. Saintliness.
- Lectures XIV And XV. The Value Of Saintliness.
- Lectures XVI And XVII. Mysticism.
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- Lecture XVIII. Philosophy.
- Lecture XIX. Other Characteristics.
- Lecture XX. Conclusions.
- Postscript.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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